[mateo411]

I interview a lot of people. My experience is that people with degrees are better are a little better at algorithms and they know big-O complexity. People without degrees hate it when I ask big-O complexity problems.

However, I think the programming ability is something that's gained by doing and not by studying. I think the programming abilities, knowing how to debug, the languages, the IDEs, the people that know this well, are the ones who are passionate about programming.

If I interviewed you, I would ask you some basic Python questions. I would make you code and solve some simple algorithm questions. I would also ask you some SQL questions. I would expect that you could write a SQL statement that does a join, a group by, uses a having clause.

If you can demonstrate this knowledge in an interview that's awesome! If the interview doesn't go well, don't worry too much about it. Try to learn what you didn't do well on, then try again.